Quality Assurance Engineer - Pavago

Job Title: Quality Assurance Engineer

Position Type: Full-Time, Remote Working Hours: U.S. Client Business Hours (with flexibility for release cycles, sprint deadlines, and testing windows)

About the Role

Our client is seeking a Quality Assurance Engineer to ensure software products are reliable, functional, scalable, and production-ready before release. This role combines manual testing, automated testing, defect tracking, and collaboration with engineering and product teams to maintain high software quality standards.

The ideal candidate is highly detail-oriented, technically curious, and passionate about delivering exceptional user experiences through structured testing and quality-focused thinking.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys identifying edge cases, improving testing coverage, and helping engineering teams release software with confidence.

Responsibilities

Test Planning & Quality Strategy

• Develop detailed test plans, test cases, and quality assurance documentation • Collaborate with product managers, designers, and developers to understand requirements and user stories • Define testing strategies for features, integrations, workflows, and regression coverage • Ensure acceptance criteria and edge cases are properly validated before release

Manual Testing & Defect Validation

• Execute manual testing across functional, regression, UI/UX, cross-browser, and cross-device scenarios • Identify, document, and track defects using Jira, Azure DevOps, TestRail, Zephyr, or similar tools • Provide detailed reproduction steps, screenshots, logs, and supporting documentation • Retest bug fixes and verify impacted areas after updates or deployments

Test Automation

• Build, maintain, and improve automated test suites using Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, or similar frameworks • Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or GitLab CI • Monitor test execution results and troubleshoot automation failures • Improve automation coverage to reduce manual regression effort

Performance & Security Testing

• Conduct load, stress, and performance testing using tools such as JMeter or Locust • Support vulnerability scanning and security-focused testing efforts • Validate system stability, responsiveness, and reliability under varying workloads

Documentation & Reporting

• Maintain organized documentation for test plans, test cases, bug reports, and testing results • Track and report quality metrics such as defect density, pass/fail rates, and regression coverage • Prepare clear QA status updates and testing summaries for stakeholders and leadership

Collaboration & Agile Participation

• Work closely with developers t